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[[Havel]] discerned the fraudulence of what I would call the 'interpassive [[socialism]]' of the Western academic [[Left]]. These leftists aren't interested in [[activity]]-merely in 'authentic' [[experience]]. They allow themselves to pursue their well-paid academic careers in the West, while using the idealised [[Other]] (Cuba, Nicaragua, Tito's [[Yugoslavia]]) as the stuff of their [[ideological]] [[dreams]]: they [[dream]] through the Other, but turn their backs on it if it disturbs their complacency by abandoning socialism and opting for [[liberal]] [[capitalism]]. What is of special interest here is the [[lack]] of [[understanding]] between -the Western Left and [[dissidents]] such as Havel. In the eyes of the Western Left, Eastern dissidents were too naive in their [[belief]] in liberal [[democracy]]-in rejecting socialism, they threw out the [[baby]] with the bath water. In the eyes of the dissidents, the Western Left played patronising [[games]] with [[them]], disavowing the [[true]] harshness of [[totalitarianism]]. The [[idea]] that the dissidents were somehow [[guilty]] for not seizing the unique opportunity provided by the disintegration of socialism to invent an authentic alternative to capitalism was pure [[hypocrisy]].
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